well-educated workforce. all those things the president s talked about in individual components in silos. he s putting them together with a plan. i wish he had done it earlier, but he s talked about every one of them. let s get to the timing issue. a lot of people drop news five minutes before the nightly news. you want to have a certain amount of exposure but not too much so it gets taken apart all day. these guys like plouffe, do you think they re thinking about two weeks is about enough time for the people when they re really paying attention to absorb? well, yeah, but i think we have to put ad dollars behind this 3.5 million copies of this plan. without ad dollars, there is no plan. same question to you. i mean, i agree education sometimes i think it s just a sop to the nea when he says it over and over and over again. obviously is means something to people with kids. we know the difference between obama not being who he is and being who he is, he went to the best school in
let s listen to the president today on his future four years. in this campaign i have laid out a plan for jobs and middle class security, and unlike mitt romney i m actually proud to talk about what s in it. because my plan actually will move america forward, and by the way, the math in my plan adds up. well, with me now are two msnbc political analysts, former pennsylvania governor ed rendell and the nation magazine s john nichols. governor, thanks for coming on. you know about politics and policy and how it works. it seems to me that some people really like the fact that romney a couple debates ago had a five-point plan. they just love that packaging, five-point plan. obama had to come back and say it s only a one-point plan because he knew it was trouble. is it important now that the president have his five-point plan even if it doesn t have a lot to do with jobs next week, education, training, building on the manufacturing base, american-made energy, and debt
would not provide government assistance to the u.s. auto companies even if they went through bankruptcy. you said that they could get it in the private marketplace. that wasn t true. they would you re wrong, mr. president. no, i am not wrong. you re wrong. i am not wrong. look it up. romney s new york times op-ed headline, let detroit go bankrupt, is often evidence he would let the auto industry fail. in fairness, he didn t select the headline. he would have withheld federal money from the auto industry. he wrote, a managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental reconstruction the industry needs. it would permit the companies to shed excess labor, pension, and real estate cost. the federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing. steve rattner, you re the expert. it seems if i want to borrow money as a company to stay alive, i would remember who turned me down. he thinks he got away with it last night, romney. i think the preside
education decides how you do it in this world, right? it does make sense, and without an emphasis on education, you come off as a bit of a anti-education person. is this going to turn it? he puts education up front. that s what people see first. is this a winning argument? i think so, chris. yeah, i think so, chris. look, i have got an 8-year-old daughter. i m one of those people who is very interested in education. i don t happen to be in a teachers union, but i m glad my kid s teachers are. i think this plan coming at this point is actually very smart. if president obama, who really outlined a lot of this in his acceptance speech at the democratic convention, if they had put it out in a written form back in september, we would have spent most of september arguing about the plan. at this point we end up in a situation where we have two weeks when people are most focused to talk about it, and this refocuses things on his
except he likes it, and he knows a lot about politics. let s look at the most heated exchange. it was spurred by a question about trade with china but went straight to the heart of ohio where one in eight jobs are tied to the auto industry, especially in toledo. if we had taken your advice about our auto industry, we d be buying cars from china instead of selling cars to china. i m a son of detroit, i was born in detroit. my dad was head of a car company. i like american cars, and i would do nothing to hurt the u.s. auto industry. my plan to get the industry on its feet when it was in real trouble was not to start writing checks, and it was president bush that wrote the first checks. i disagree with that. i said they need they need to go through a managed bankruptcy. governor romney, you keep on trying to, you know, air brush history here. you were very clear that you